About me

Piriya Wongkongkathep (Pete)

Landscape Photographer

Pete is known as a landscape photographer based in Southern California, originally from Bangkok, Thailand. He was completely self-taught by going out in the nature and seek for breathtaking views and light. With a variety of mountain, lake, waterfall, fall color, and desert landscapes throughout the U.S., he has been truly inspired and gained his passion in nature photography. Aside from doing scientific researches, he enjoys traveling and backcountry camping. His photos were published in international photography magazines, such as N-photo.
Pete moved to the U.S. in 2009 for his graduate study in Analytical Chemistry at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He finally moved again to Los Angeles area in 2011 where he switched to the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB) program at UCLA and received his Ph.D. in November 2015. Currently he works at Chulalongkorn University Systems Biology center (CUSB) as a postdoctoral researcher. If you are interested about his science, please go to this page.